Deadline: 31 January 2011
Eligibility: the open category is available for any national or international entry
Reading Fee: £6
Accepts (genre): poems
Prize/Payment:
Entry is now open to the 2011 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
‘Medical’ is to be interpreted in the widest sense, including the nature of the body, and anatomy; the history, evolution, current and future state of medical science; the nature and experience of tests; the experience of doctors, nurses and other staff in hospitals and in the community; the experience of patients, families, friends and carers in these situations; the experiences of acute and long-term illness and dying, of birth, of cure and convalescence; the patient journey; the nature and experience of treatment with herbs, chemicals and devices used in medicine.
The open category is available for any national or international entry. NHS entries are limited to current or former UK NHS-related staff and UK health students.
1. Poems must be no more than 50 lines in length and not previously published in any form. They must be by a living poet, written in English and should not be translations of another writer’s work.
2. Poems may be entered either online, or by post to The Hippocrates Prize, c/o The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 12 Chandos Street, London W1G 9DR and must be accompanied by payment of £6 for each poem entered, by secure online payment or by cheque made payable to ’Hippocrates Prize’.
3. Poems should be marked OPEN in the top right corner if they are entered in the international open category, or NHS if they are entered in the category for National Health Service related employees (current or former) or UK health students. The writer’s name should not appear on the poem(s), but an entry form bearing the entrant’s name, address, telephone number and email address, and the title(s) of poem(s) submitted, must be included. A poem entered in the NHS category may win a prize in the open category, but a poem entered in the open category may not win a prize in the NHS category. No poem may win more than one prize. Proof of NHS employee or health student status will be required from winners in the NHS category.
4. All entries must be received by 12 midnight GMT on 31st January 2011. Results will be announced at a prize-giving event during an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the University of Warwick on Saturday 23rd April 2011 and will be published on the Hippocrates Prize website.
5. Copyright remains with the authors, but the Hippocrates Prize organizers reserve the right of first publication, both online and in a prizewinners’ anthology.
6. The 2011 Hippocrates Prize judges will read a long-list prepared by filter judges, and their decision will be final.
7. Entrants may take out a year’s subscription to The Warwick Review, an international quarterly of new writing, at a preferential rate of £15 (normally £25).
More information here.
Eligibility: the open category is available for any national or international entry
Reading Fee: £6
Accepts (genre): poems
Prize/Payment:
Entry is now open to the 2011 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
‘Medical’ is to be interpreted in the widest sense, including the nature of the body, and anatomy; the history, evolution, current and future state of medical science; the nature and experience of tests; the experience of doctors, nurses and other staff in hospitals and in the community; the experience of patients, families, friends and carers in these situations; the experiences of acute and long-term illness and dying, of birth, of cure and convalescence; the patient journey; the nature and experience of treatment with herbs, chemicals and devices used in medicine.
The open category is available for any national or international entry. NHS entries are limited to current or former UK NHS-related staff and UK health students.
1. Poems must be no more than 50 lines in length and not previously published in any form. They must be by a living poet, written in English and should not be translations of another writer’s work.
2. Poems may be entered either online, or by post to The Hippocrates Prize, c/o The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 12 Chandos Street, London W1G 9DR and must be accompanied by payment of £6 for each poem entered, by secure online payment or by cheque made payable to ’Hippocrates Prize’.
3. Poems should be marked OPEN in the top right corner if they are entered in the international open category, or NHS if they are entered in the category for National Health Service related employees (current or former) or UK health students. The writer’s name should not appear on the poem(s), but an entry form bearing the entrant’s name, address, telephone number and email address, and the title(s) of poem(s) submitted, must be included. A poem entered in the NHS category may win a prize in the open category, but a poem entered in the open category may not win a prize in the NHS category. No poem may win more than one prize. Proof of NHS employee or health student status will be required from winners in the NHS category.
4. All entries must be received by 12 midnight GMT on 31st January 2011. Results will be announced at a prize-giving event during an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the University of Warwick on Saturday 23rd April 2011 and will be published on the Hippocrates Prize website.
5. Copyright remains with the authors, but the Hippocrates Prize organizers reserve the right of first publication, both online and in a prizewinners’ anthology.
6. The 2011 Hippocrates Prize judges will read a long-list prepared by filter judges, and their decision will be final.
7. Entrants may take out a year’s subscription to The Warwick Review, an international quarterly of new writing, at a preferential rate of £15 (normally £25).
More information here.
